Today in History: March 15

Julius Caesar

44 BC — Julius Caesar, dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus, and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March.

1493 — Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas.

1781 — American Revolutionary War: (Battle of Guilford Court House) Near present-day Greensboro, N.C., 1,900 British troops under General Charles Cornwallis defeat a mixed American force numbering 4,400 in a Pyrrhic victory.